Old Vinyl (Part 1)

Need some pictures on this blog, to prove it's not dead 😀

Got bored the other day so grabbed a box of vinyl singles from upstairs to listen to a few, and decided to photograph them as I went.

So in no particular order here's what I've done so far 🙄

John Peel - For Virgin Record Stores

Let's get some credibility back to this blog, these are really good.
Picked these up from somewhere (big thanks to Mr Original uploader, whoever you were) about 3-4 years back and only recently gave them a good listen, brilliant stuff from John Peel. All tapes recorded for use in Virgin record stores in 79/80 each one contains about an hour of current (at the time) releases with some great fill-ins by JP.
Not 100% sure of some of the band names and titles just going on what it sounds like to me.

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For Virgin Record Stores 16/10/79

First up is one listed as being recorded 16th October 79.
Good selection here with 3 Specials tracks and the brilliant "Turn to red" by Killing Joke as well as some good ones I didn't know before like the Capital Letters and Freshmen tracks.

Great lines from Peel in this one include -
On Killing Joke "it could be Public Image having a joke at our expense except I don't think Public image are as good as that"
On the Girl track "Here's your chance to bang your head against something solid and immovable, a member of the Virgin staff perhaps"

(Part One)
Specials - Stupid Marriage
Killing Joke - Turning Red
Sneak Preview - Slugweird
Capital Letters - Unemployed
Home Service - Wake Up
Girl - My Number
Cabaret Voltaire - Kirlian Photograph

(Part Two)
Specials - Dawning Of A New Era
Freshmen - You've Never Heard Anything Like It
Pink Military - Spellbound
Jackie Lee - Do The Duck
Killing Joke - Are You Receiving
Phillip Rambo - The Sound And The Fury
Secret Affair - Let Your Heart Dance
Specials - Too Much Too Young
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For Virgin Record Stores 05/12/79

Second of three of these Virgin stores tapes, another excellent selection with a few well known names thrown in.
Best Peel comments on this one - On U2 "A Boomtown Rats for the 1980's", and "wait until you hear the other side of the tape .. absolute crap".

(Part One)
U2 - Out Of Control
Kid Thomas - Rocking This Joint Tonight
Clash - Rudy Can't Fail
Beat - Tears Of A Clown
Ruefrex - One By One
Michael Campbell - Dubwise?
Capital Punishment - Save Your Kisses For Me
Undertones - Baby It Hurts

(Part Two)
Beat - Ranking Full Stop
Delta Five - Mind Your Own Business
Mikey Dread - Saturday Night Style
Clash - Working For The Clampdown
Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Mekons - Trevira Trousers
Derrick Morgan - Moon Hop
Rentals - New York
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For Virgin Record Stores 19/02/80

Here's number three, another random selection of old and new from Peel.
This one had more tracks that I didn't know than the others but still worth listening to.
I guess these were done in one take as the Stunt Kites record gets stuck halfway through which isn't a good advert for a record shop.
The first track which sounds like it's from an early Jackie Chan movie is actually the 1979 German Eurovision song contest entry!! obviously Peel wasn't aware of this as he says it's "a wildly over the top record from Hong Kong".
Best Peel comment on this one - "buy, buy and then fuck off out of the shop"

(Part One)
Lamb - Dschinghis Khan
Clock DVA - Brigade
Derrick Morgan - Moon Hop
Bodies - Art Nouveaux
Selecter - Every Day
Cuff Links - Guided Missiles
Any Trouble - Yesterday's Love
Stunt Kites - Beautiful People
Burning Spear - Getting From Bad To Worse

(Part Two)
Jimmy Reid - Shucks Hush Your Mouth
Vice Versa - Genetic Warfare
Misfits - Horror Business
Paul Williams - House Rocking
Tiller Boys - Big Noise From The Jungle
Sugar Minott - Carry Me Gone To Jailhouse
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House
I'm So Hollow - I Don't Know

Clash - Demos 76-79

Another from the "Destroy Tapes" series, mainly a collection of demos from the Polydor, CBS and "give 'em enough rope" sessions.
Most of these were available recently on the DOA album although I think the quality is better here suprisingly? must be some technical reason why the CD version sounds so flat compared to this cassette version.
Incidentally the cover tracklisting misses Stay Free but it was on the tape, although it ends a bit sudden so the tape might have ran out.

01 Career Opportunities
02 White Riot
03 Janie Jones
04 London's Burning
05 1977
06 1 2 Crush On You
07 Pressure Drop
08 The Prisoner
09 Safe European Home
10 Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
11 Stay Free
12 Groovy Times
13 Drug Stabbing Time
14 Last Gang In Town
15 Ooh Baby Ooh
16 One Emotion
17 You Can't Judge A Woman (By Making Love To Her Mother)
18 Kill Time

Tracks 1-5 - Polydor Demos Dec 1976
Tracks 6-8 - CBS Demo Jan 1978
Tracks 9-16 - Rope Demos 1978
Track 17 - Wessex Studios 1979
Track 18 - Live In New York 1982

The Best Gig I Never Went To

Hunting through my old junk I came across this bit of paper torn from "Sounds" from sometime in 1976, I had fancied going to this gig as I had been to a couple of shows at the Kursaal Southend before and at the time was trying to see at least one band a week as I had just started earning.
The Pistols turned up on Janet Street Porters Sunday morning show "the London Weekend Show" and thought I've gotta get along to that.
A little later they appeared on TV with Bill Grundy and the rest is history as they say.
The gig was cancelled and at the time it seemed like no big deal as most of the bands I saw at the time were never heard of again, but with hindsight it would have been amazing to have been there if it had gone ahead - The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash and Johnny Thunder all playing here in Southend.
I think I ended up going to see the Shadows at the Cliffs instead!! very punk of me haha

Clash - London Calling

Brilliant song which is my second favourite Clash track.
The last release of the Seventies, and sadly in my opinion the last of the golden period.
The B Armagideon is a classic in it's own right

London Calling
Armagideon Time

Clash - Tommy Gun

This was the follow up to White Man and reached number 19 in the UK (making it the first Clash top 20 single amazingly).
Another one of those "what did he sing" tracks, although it never mattered because it just sounded so great :)
The B side is one that grew on me, I hated it at the time as it was a bit rockabilly but that just demonstrates the variation of styles used by the Clash.

Tommy Gun
1-2 Crush On You

Clash - White Riot

Where it all began from early 1977, both tracks less than 2 minutes which in my opinion made it a perfect "in your face" song.

Cheated slightly on the cover as this came in a boring plain white sleeve.
I always wonder how people got the picture sleeves as every record shop in my area only ever seemed to stock these early ones in the plain white covers or those with the record company logo (as above), picture sleeves became more commonplace around 1978.

Clash - White Riot
Clash - 1977

Clash - Complete Control

Although I'd heard White Riot, to me the Clash were just another of the hundreds of bands around at the time knocking out these short sharp blasts of energy that were making buying records a pleasure.
Then along came this and it became the greatest punk song I'd heard (and still is).
The B side always makes me think "X Ray Spex" when it starts

I'm sort of ashamed that despite listening to this song about a thousand times I never actually knew the proper lyrics, so thanks to John Liedown for pointing them out :)

Complete Control
The City Of The Dead

Duplicates

Must start checking my back catalogue before getting stuff.
Was really pleased to find an obscure (non blog, non english) site with a pile of old rare punk stuff, so I got 2 1976 Clash bootlegs, the Flipside vinyl collection and a few other compilations.
Just went to add them to the archive and found I already had every single track, and have had them for over 4 years :(
It's getting really hard to find stuff from that era that isn't widely available.

Various - Mashed Punks

Thought about calling this selection "Sacrilege" as it didn't seem right to be using classic punk/new wave tunes in a dance orientated way, but from the first one I heard GHP's "Ray of Gob" I quickly changed my opinion Mark Vidler had made such a good job of it that I ended up searching for more.
Sort of lost interest when it became a bit more professional, so most of these are from about 5 years back and are mostly rough and ready mashes.
All have a punk/new wave link so hopefully you'll like them too.
I've credited the mash artist (in brackets) where I can remember them.

Basement Jaxx Vs Clash - Magnificent Romeo
Bjork Vs Cure - A Hidden Forest (Gordy Boy)
Buzzcocks Vs Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Boredom (Soundhog)
CC Peniston Vs Sex Pistols - Finally Did You No Wrong (Go Home Productions)
Clash Vs Gwen Stefani - Radio Hollaback
Clash Vs Moguai - U Know Y London Burns (IDC)
Cure Vs TLC - Scrub Cats (McSleazy)
Ejected Vs Pitman - Punk Pitman (LV15)
Electric Six V Sex Pistols - Problems At The Gay Bar (Go Home Productions)
Gwen Stefani Vs Lene Lovich - Waiting For My Lucky Number (Carty)
Kelly Rowland Vs Dead Kennedys - Drunken Fuck (LV15)
Madonna Vs Sex Pistols - God Save Madonna (Go Home Productions)
Madonna Vs Sex Pistols - Ray Of Gob (Go Home Productions)
Michael Jackson Vs Buzzcocks - Punky Jacko Party
Queen Vs Bad Manners - We Will Ska You
Ramones Vs Beastie Boys - Beastie Bop (Dinbot)
Sex Pistols Vs The Devil - Antichrist (Thrift Shop XL)
Sex Pistols Vs Visage - Fade To Pretty Vacant (Copycat)
Stranglers Vs Peaches - Peaches Peaches
XTC Vs Tweet - Making Plans For Vinyl

Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais

Here's the vinyl version of White Man.

01 - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
02 - The Prisoner

Various Artists - Cover Versions

I tend to either love or hate cover versions, if they are too similar to the original I'll label them as shite, or if a band has put their own distinctive mark on them I usually love them.
Here is a totally random selection, by no means the best and probably not even including all my favourites (just ones that sprung to mind without having to search too hard).
A lot with punk influence but enough of other genres to make it interesting.
Everyone has their favourites and their own opinions I looked up a couple of articles on top rated covers and to be honest hated most of them.

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Anti Nowhere League - Streets Of London
Bad Manners - The First Cut Is The Deepest
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Beat - Tears Of A Clown
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
Bomb The Bass - Say A Little Prayer
Clash - Police And Thieves
Cramps - Route 66
Damned - Ballroom Blitz
Devo - (I Can't Get Me No) Satisfaction
Dickies - Nights In White Satin
Echo And The Bunnymen - People Are Strange
Elbow - Independent Woman
Fall - Gotta See Jane
Flying Lizards - What's New Pussycat
Green Day - Working Class Hero
Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs
Jam - Batman Theme
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers - Wheels On The Bus
King Kurt - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
Madness - It Must Be Love
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Leaving On A Jet Plane
Modettes - Paint It Black
Motorhead - God Save The Queen
Muse - Feeling Good
Ramones - What A Wonderful World
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Saints - Lipstick On Your Collar
Sid Vicious - My Way
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter
Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Television Personalities - Mr Brightside
Tenpole Tudor - Rock Around The Clock
Tori Amos - Rattlesnakes
Toy Dolls - Blue Suede Shoes
White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
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Abrasive Wheels - Jailhouse Rock
All Seeing I - Beat Goes On
Amateur Transplants - London Underground (Going Underground)
Amy Winehouse - Cupid
Avalanches - Do You Know The Way To San Jose
B52's - Downtown
Billy Bragg - She's Leaving Home
Bjork And PJ Harvey - Satisfaction (Live)
Buzzcocks - Ballroom Blitz
Cult - Born To Be Wild
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas
Devo - Working In A Coalmine
Eddie And The Hot Rods - Gloria
Elvis Costello - She
Farmer's Boys - In The Country
Fatima Mansions - Everything I Do
Flying Lizards - Sex Machine
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Suffragette City
Fun Lovin Criminals - We Have All The Time In The World
Ian Brown - Billie Jean
Judge Dread - Al Capone
Kate Bush - Rocket Man
Little Nell - Fever
Manic Street Preachers - Suicide Is Painless (Theme From Mash)
OK Go - Ant Music
Plastic Bertrand - Sha La La La Lee
Presidents Of The USA - Video Killed the Radio Star
Rezillos - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Rocket From The Crypt - Press Darlings
Sex Pistols - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
Specials - Return Of The Django
Splodgenessabounds - Two Little Boys
Stranglers - 96 Tears
Thirty Nine Lyon Street (Billy McKenzie) - Kites
Vice Squad - Teenage Rampage
Vinnie Jones - Wooly Bully
Wall Of Voodoo - Ring Of Fire
Weezer - Uptown Girl
Who - Summer Time Blues (Live)
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Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias - Anarchy In The UK
Bad Manners - Wet Dream
Beautiful South - Everybody's Talking At Me
Billy Bragg And The Blokes - Billericay Dickie
Carter USM - The Impossible Dream
Count Bishops - Route 66
Damned - Eloise
Dickies - Paranoid
Divine Comedy - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Faith No More - Easy
Fratellis - Solid Gold Easy Action
Jane Aire And The Belvederes - Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache
Jet Bumpers - Radar Love
John Otway - Space Oddity
Leningrad Cowboys - These Boots Are Made For Walking
Manic Street Preachers - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (Unplugged)
Offspring - I Wanna Be Sedated
Radio Stars - Dear Prudence
Ramones - Baby I Love You
Rezillos - I Like It
Selecter - James Bond
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah
Sex Pistols - Substitute
Sexgang Children - As Tears Go By
Sham 69 - You're A Better Man Than I
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Passenger
Snow Patrol - Isolation
Soft Cell - What
Specials - Double Barrel
Spizzenergi - Virginia Plain
Splodgenessabounds - Wiffy Woman (Pretty Woman)
Stranglers - Walk On By
Stray Cats - Something Else
Suggs - Cecilia
Vandals - Hocus Pocus
Vic Reeves - Born Free
Wedding Present - Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Wreckless Eric - Clever Trevor
XTC - All Along The Watchtower
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Ataris - The Boys Of Summer
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Bjork - You Only Live Twice
Blue Rondo A La Turk - I Spy (For The FBI)
Blues Brothers - Rawhide
Bronski Beat - It Ain't Necessarily So
Clash - I Fought The Law
Colourfield - Windmills Of Your Mind
Decemberists - Human Behaviour
Human League - Get Carter
J Church - Girlfriend In A Coma
Jam - David Watts
Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros - Redemption Song
Kaiser Chiefs - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Keane - With Or Without You
Killers - Shadowplay
Kirsty MacColl - A New England
L7 - Hanging On The Telephone
Lawnmower Deth - Up The Junction
Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella
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Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
Marilyn Manson - Down In The Park
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Seasons In The Sun
Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain
Morrissey - That's Entertainment
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
New York Dolls - (Give Him A) Great Big Kiss
No Doubt - It's My Life
No Way Sis - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
Rubinoos - I Think We're Alone Now
Siouxsie And The Banshees - This Wheel's On Fire
Skids - All The Young Dudes
Stranglers - All Day And All Of The Night
Suggs - Alright
Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Terry Hall - Music To Watch Girls By
The King - Come As You Are
Toyah - Echo Beach
U96 - Das Boot
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Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC²

The second and most succesful single from Big Audio Dynamite, who of course featured Mick Jones of the Clash and punk film maker Don Letts.

Blah, Blah.......
Thought of this track the other day when watching a guy explaining peoples belief in religion, he pointed out that we all believe that E=MC² even though only Mathematicians and Physicists can actually understand it, but because someone cleverer than us says it's true we believe it in the same way that some people look up to their priests and clergy and believe whatever they're told.

A - E=MC²
B - This Is Big Audio Dynamite

Ashes To Ashes - Series One

Ashes to Ashes is the follow up series to the highly rated "Life on Mars", which featured 2006 detective Sam Tyler being thrown back to 1973.
For this series replace Sam with female detective Alex Drake who is this time thrown back to 1981 to solve the mystery of her parents death.
All far fetched but good entertainment :)
Also the series featured some great 80's music, the official soundtrack only features 19 of the 66 tracks used plus some dialogue and title themes.
This should be every track that was featured, although I've read some people claim to have heard a few others (but these are those listed on the official website).

01
Ultravox - Vienna
Duran Duran - Careless Memories
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
The Passions - I'm In Love With a German Film Star
The Clash - I Fought The Law
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
02
Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men
Madness - The Prince
Imagination - Body Talk
The Flying Lizards - Money
Visage - Fade To Grey
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
Jon And Vangelis - I Hear You Now
Dexy's Midnight Runners - There There My Dear
Chas And Dave - Gertcha
03
The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys
Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls
Roxy Music - Let's Stick Together
Roxy Music - Over You
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
Modern Romance - Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
The Buzzcocks - Autonomy
The Beat - Doors Of Your Heart
04
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Shakin' Stevens - Green Door
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay
The Clash - London Calling
Human League - Love Action
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
The Clash - Police and Thieves
05
Madness - One Step Beyond
Simple Minds - I Travel
XTC - Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
Killing Joke - Turn To Red
Donna Summer - I Feel love
John Davis - Love Magic
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Sarah Brightman And Hot Gossip - I lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper
Soft Cell - Where Did Our Love Go
06
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Skids - Into The Valley
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
Spandau Ballet - Chant No 1
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Ultravox - Vienna *
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Japan - Ghosts
07
The Clash - Police On My Back
Kate Bush - The Man With The Child In His Eyes
The Beat - Whine And Grine
Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life
David Bowie - Fame
The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
Peaches and Herb - Reunited
Marshall Hain - Dancing In the City
Rossini - William Tell Overture
08
Tom Robinson Band - 2 4 6 8 Motorway
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes *
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
Bonus TracksIntroduction Dialogue - Alex Drake
Interlude Dialogue - You're Nicked
Edmund Butt - Gene Genie (Gene Hunt's Theme)
Edmund Butt - Title Music from Ashes To Ashes
Epilogue Dialogue - Fandabydozy

Clash - Remote Control

This was the second CBS single, and I've read that they released it without the Clash's permission.
The song failed to hit the chart after the minor chart success of White Riot.

A - Remote Control
B - London's Burning (Live)

Clash - Clash City Rockers

Here's the Clash's 3rd hit single (reached no.35 in March 78).

A - Clash City Rockers
B - Jail Guitar Doors

Various Artists - NME Awards Nominations 2003

The Big Bash - NME Awards Nominations Album 2003

Here is an NME compilation from 2003.
Most of the bands are still relevant today, suprisingly includes Complete Control by the Clash so I assume they were nominated for some lifetime achievement award?

01 The Hives - Main Offender
02 Ash - Envy
03 The Datsuns - Supergyrations!
04 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Screaming Gun
05 Ryan Adams - Nuclear
06 The Coral - Wildfire
07 The Streets - The Irony Of It All
08 Radiohead - Morning Bell-Amnes
09 The Polyphonic Spree - La La
10 Oasis - The Cage
11 Doves - Darker
12 The Vines - Sun Child
13 Coldplay - 136
14 The Libertines - The Delaney
15 The Clash - Complete Control

Various - Lost Property

Lost property is a compilation of "Post Punk" tunes that everyone should have.
I bought this before I had a computer and it contains some of the best songs from the period of 79-92 that I'd only had on vinyl before.
2 Discs 37 tracks with very few off moments.







Disc 1
01 - Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
02 - The Cult She Sells Sanctuary
03 - Public Image This Is Not A Love Song
04 - New Order Blue Monday
05 - The Smiths This Charming Man
06 - Echo & The Bunnymen The Cutter
07 - Sisters Of Mercy Temple Of Love
08 - Bauhaus Ziggy Stardust
09 - Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down
10 - Psychadelic Furs Pretty In Pink
11 - Iggy Pop Lust For Life
12 - Simple Minds I Travel
13 - Electronic Getting Away With It
14 - Gang Of Four I Love A Man In Uniform
15 - The Wonder Stuff Size Of A Cow
16 - Lotus Eaters First Picture Of You
17 - B 52's Rock Lobster
18 - The Clash Magnificent 7

Disc 2
01 - The Jam Going Underground
02 - The Dammed Eloise
03 - Wire I Am The Fly
04 - Magazine A Song From Under The Floorboards
05 - The Birthday Party Release The Bats
06 - Theatre Of Hate Do You Believe In The Westworld
07 - Spear Of Destiny The Wheel
08 - The Pixies Monkey Gone To Heaven
09 - Teardrop Explodes Reward
10 - Primal Scream Loaded
11 - Jesus And Mary Chain April Skies
12 - Happy Mondays Step On
13 - James Sit Down
14 - Jane's Addiction Been Caught Stealing
15 - The Farm All Together Now
16 - Morrissey Everyday Is Like Sunday
17 - Dexy's Midnight Runners Geno
18 - Waterboys Whole Of The Moon
19 - The Specials Ghost Town